The gumdrop sun rises high

in the cotton candy sky.

A woman stretches. She starts to run.

The city morning has begun!

This is beautiful picture book about a dad and his daughter heading off to school before the sun is up. It's a rhyming concept book - a long poem describing how the city wakes up one morning.

About the Author

Erica Silverman is a librarian and the author of several books including Big Pumpkin, When the Chickens Went on Strike, which was a Sydney Taylor Honor book, and Sholom's Treasure, which won the Sydney Taylor Award and was a runner-up for the National Jewish Book Award. Her books have received the Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Gold Award, the California Young Reader Medal, ABA Pick of the List, and the first book in her early-reader series Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa won the Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor. She lives in Los Angeles, California.